Water, water, everywhere and not a drop in the dam! From: New African | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Duodu, Cameron | Copyright International Communications Jul 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

It is amazing that part of our collective psyche will be praying that the rains get even heavier in Ghana, so that the Volta Lake may fill up and deliver power to our homes. Yet, on the other hand, the more sympathetic souls amongst us will be mourning with those who have lost their relatives or dwelling places to the recent floods.

It is unbelievably ironic that while we in Ghana are experiencing periodic electricity outages due to load-shedding caused by the fact that our Akosombo hy...

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